Meridian Community College Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie Discussion

You are to bring up one point of
analysis that you would like to discuss. These things include Theme (not a summary, but the
big-picture idea or concept of the story), Symbolism (when a symbol reflects the story’s theme
and is used as a vessel for delivering the ideas and concepts of a theme), Motifs (a recurring
symbol that drives home the theme’s point), Character Analysis of Antagonists and Protagonists
(use of an individual character, or multiple characters, to show the theme’s point), Setting (how
the scenery, whether overall or just in one part, shows the theme’s point), Point of View (First
Person or Third Person; narrator pronoun use will clue you in here), Genre (short story, poetry,
or drama/play), Sub-genre (comedy, tragedy, epic poetry, thriller, science fiction, romance,
etc.), Tone (reflects the writer’s attitude towards the subject matter or audience of a literary
work), Style (consistency in an individual authors voice or tone throughout multiple works),
Metaphor (comparison of two unlike things using implicit comparisons without using like or as),
Simile (two essential dissimilar objects or concepts are expressly compared using like or as), etc.